Cheese-curd aerator.



No. 634,76l. 4Pamm'nium; lo, 1899.

C. MDORL Y v CHEESE CURD'AERATDR.

y (Application led June B, 1899.)

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Nrrn-D STATES PATENT OFFICE- CHARLES J. MOORE, OF DEER'CREEK, MINNESOTA.

CHEES E-CURD AERATOFL srncrrroarrouformmg para @freezers Patent No. 634,761, dated october io, ieee.

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v Be it known that I, CHAnLEs J. MOORE, of Deer Creek, in the county of Ottertail and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Cheese-Ouml Aerator, of which the following is a full, clear, and -exactdescription.

This inventionv relates to devices for aerating cheese-curd.

It is well Yunderstood that in warm weathery it is diii'cult to cool cheese-curd'to the proper temperature for pressing.

, The object of my invention therefore is to provide a simple device by means of which curd may be rapidly cooled to the proper temperature and also to remove all poisonous taints and gases that maybe in the curd, thus4 improving the quality and davor of the cheese.

I will describe" a cheese-curd aerator embodying my invention and then pointent the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formin ga part of this speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l is a partial plan and partial section of a curd-aerator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on theline 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, l designates a frame, `here shown as rectangular in form and constructed of anyT suitable material. Mounted -to rotate in the frame 1 is a cylinder- 2, -which is inclined from its feed' to its outlet end. Mounted on the cylinder 2 are chan-' nel-bands 3, in the channels of which rollers 4 engage, the rollers being mounted on shafts 5, having-bearings in brackets 6, secured to the end uprights of the frame. At one end the cylinder 2 is connected by a spider or spoke connection with a tubular shaft 7,which has bearings in a cross-piece 8 of the frame, and on the outer end of this tubular shaft is a band-wheel 9, to which power may beimparted by any suitable means. Connected to the cross-piece 8 is a hopper 10, having openings 1l in its bottom. The tubular shaft 7 is provided with kfingers or projections 12 for agitatingthe curd in the hopper and forcing it through the openings 1l.

Mounted to rotate in the cylinder 2 is a fan 13, consisting of a number of horizontal strips secured to spokes which are rigidly connected to a shaft 14, one end of which has a bearing in the tubular shaft 7 and the other end has a bearing in the cross-'piece 15 at the outlet end of ,the machine. Fixed to the outer end of the shaft 14 is a pulley 16, to which a band 17 passesy to engagement with a pulley 18 on a shaft of two of the alined rollers at. f

Below the hopper 10 is a downwardly and inwardly inclined deflectingboard 19, and attached to the cross-piece lat the outlet end of the machine is a circular and downwardly extending stop-plate 20, there being a space between this stop-plate and the lower portion of the cylinder for the discharge of curd.

In operation the curd is to be placed in the` hopper 10 and the cylinder 2 is to be rapidly rotated, which will cause a rotation of the fan 13 in the cylinder, The curd will be pressed through the openings ll and passed into the cylinder, and owing to the incline ofthe cylinder will move the outlet end. During this movement it will be thoroughly agitated and cooled to the proper temperature by means of the fan-blast, This fan-blast will also remove any-impurities or gases that may be contained in the curd.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent; A

1. A cord -aerating device, comprising a cylinder mounted to rotate, a hopper at one end of the cylinder and having openings through its' bottom wall for the passage of material, a tubular shaft at one end -of the cylinderand extended through the hopper, a spiderfconnecting the tubular shaft to the cylinder, lingers on said tubular shaft for pressing material through the openings in the bottom of the'hopper, a fan-shaft having a bearing iu the tubular shaft, a fan on said shaft, and means for rotating the fan, sub-y stantially as specified.

2. A curd-aerating device, comprising a cylinder mounted to rotate,1a hopper arranged at one end of a cylinder and having openings in its bottom Wall, a tubular shaftextended through the hopper and connected to the cylinder, a pulley on the outer end of said tubullar shaft, fingers on said tubular shaft for ICO forcing material through the openings in the l into the cylinder belowthe hopper and the bottom of the hopper, a fan arranged in the retardng-plate at the outlet end of the cyleylinder one end of its shaft having e bearing nder, substantially as specified.

in the tubular shaft, rollers on which the eyl- CHARLES J. MOORE. inder is mounted to rotate, :L band connection Witnesses:

between the shaft of -alined rollers and Iche VM. STEWART,

shaft of the crank, n deflectve plete extended I A. S. WATERMAN. 

